One could think that there are only two ways of being equal: sharing the same trait, or no longer being differentiated by any.

Parity, for example, presupposes a generalised distribution of the trait that, up to this point, was restricted to males. The same thing for men and women alike, bravo! But the promotion of gender is what refuses to make of this thing a distinctive trait: we find ourselves equal in no longer being able to differentiate ourselves by any trait, since appearance, being variable, does not count. It is lethal for this generalised trait not to refer back to a credible founder—an unavoidable logical operation—and expose its carriers to being overcome with a maniacal omnipotent feeling.

In a symmetrical way, the lack of any identificatory trait runs the risk of depression.

Let us imagine for a moment that the contemporary promotion of bipolarity, at least in terms of diagnosis, is an effect of this mechanism: the revelation that the 1 is only the representative of the 0, since God is finished with. This is at least something that would be amusing.

But there is still a possibility, not the trait any longer, representative of the 1, but the use of the letter as support of equality: a=a. The difficulty in this case is that the 2^nd a is different from the 1^st through the ordinal as well as by its genesis which is that of the process of repetition: it requires a different loop to circumscribe the same.

Ch.Melman